MH

Mark Hahs

Co-founder and Managing Partner at VentureDNA

Bakersfield, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2022

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2022

    Borrow-It is a peer-to-peer (C2C and B2C) centralized marketplace that provides people and organizations with an easy-to-use platform to lend and borrow nearly anything at any time Borrow-It allows shop owners to create a new source of income with items that are not frequently used and design their own, easy-to-use, digital storefront for their rentable items

  • Co-funder and Chief Technology Officer

    2018

    Strategic experience and senior leadership in business development, technology, marketing, communications, product development, finance, fundraising and market execution for Fortune 500 companies, insurtech and fintech startups.

2013

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2013

  • Chief Information Technology Officer

    2012

    Lead strategy, development, implementation and management of innovative digital brand loyalty and marketing platform.

  • Co-founder and Managing Partner

    2005

    Currently lead the VentureDNA world-wide mobile and social media platform architecture, development and marketing team that provides all facets of strategy, marketing, technology, business development and consulting solutions for business-to-business, business-to-consumer and business-to-enterprise applications. Mobile solutions are developed and made available in the Apple iTunes, Google Play and Amazon App Stores, as well as, responsive mobile sites for smartphone and tablet devices. Clients include: Lake Forest College, Yellowstone National Park, APM Music, Boomtown Trail Canada, Tribune Media Services, Fry Communications, Teldon Publishing, American Red Cross, Viking Range, Discover Card and various mobile application start-ups. Mobile and social media platforms developed include: GPS Audio Tours, Mobile Magazine Publishing, Higher Education Marketing, Voice-enabled Applications, and Personal Chronic Disease Management.

2002

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2002

    Founded in 2002 at the dawn of the mobile transformation age where WAP sites were the only mobile interactive norm and content management systems and search engine marketing were the call of the day. Today, O2Ware offers a mix of out-sourced strategy, investment, design, marketing and technology services in order to implement and integrate mobile / web site front-end sales and marketing funnels with highly technical front-end and back-end ERP, CRM, CSR and CMS systems. Client projects include: Motorola, Microsoft, Oral-B, AAA, American Red Cross, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Tribune Companies, Warner Brothers, NBC/Universal, United MilagePlus, Discover, Intescope Records, Coca Cola, Life Fitness, Takeda, Disney, Grey Advertising, Choice Hotels, Mi Hotels, Agilent Technologies, KarChing, Buyer's View, Billabong, Element Skateboards, Woodward, Boy Scouts of America, Rotary International and Small School Districts Association of California.

2012 - 2014

  • Partner

    2012 - 2014

2002 - 2008

  • Principal

    2002 - 2008

    Co-founded a boutique marketing and communications agency with annual billings of $1mil+ for clients that included Disney, AdStar, 2004 Olympics, NBC, NFL, Media News Group, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Labcorp, Vyteris and Community Pro.

1998 - 2002

  • Founder - Chief Technology Officer

    1998 - 2002

    Better known as “Camp True Interactive” because of its studio location on the beach in Malibu, California and the awesome young talent that the company attracted, the company was founded to service the burgeoning need for creative, interactive and technology services nation-wide. Sales exceeded $2mil+ in the first year with the world-class project team topping out at 50+ team members. Clients included: Motorola, US Mint, Agilent Technologies, Interscope Records, S.C.O.R.E., Coca Cola, Sungard Treasury, Channel Island Surfboards, Dick Clark Productions, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, as well as, a new breed of Internet-only businesses and not-for-profits such as eToys, eHobbies, Realtor.com and Advertising Agencies Association of Los Angeles.

1993 - 1998

  • Founder - Chief Technology Officer

    1993 - 1998

    Founded the first identifiable Internet development agency in Los Angeles in 1994. Created a new market for the services and grew sales to over $1mil in the first year. Clients included: Grey Advertising, BBDO, Warner Brothers, Western International Media, MonsterTrak, Chicago Tribune, Oral B, CalFed, AAA, CitiCorp, AOL, KingWorld, Sony Columbia-Tristar and a new Interscope Records band called the Black Eyed Peas.